In 1872 I received a request like this and I did register and vote, for which I was arrested, convicted and fined $100. Excuse me ...if I decline to repeat the experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young man of Japan Whose limericks never would scan.... When folks told him so, He replied, "Yes, I know, But I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human visual perception is a far more complex and selective process than that by which a film records. Nevertheless the camera len...s and the eye both register images--because of their sensitivity to light--at great speed and in the face of an immediate event. What the camera does, however, and what the eye in itself can never do is to fix the appearance of that event. It removes its appearance from the flow of appearances and it preserves it, not perhaps forever but for as long as the film exists. The essential character of this preservation is not dependent upon the image being static; unedited film rushes preserve in essentially the same way. The camera saves a set of appearances from the otherwise inevitable supercession of further appearances. It holds them unchanging. And before the invention of the camera nothing could do this, except, in the mind's eye, the faculty of memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin'd: Why am I forc'd, like Heav'n, against my mind,... To make Examples of another Kind? Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals,... Fast to surface and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitim...ate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, n...ow too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. But what experience... and history teach is this--that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have them re...gister their names in each ward, and then appoint certain thoroughfares in the city for their use, that those who feel no need of this envelopment of curling vapor, to insure protection may be relieved from a nuisance as disgusting to the olfactories as it is prejudicial to the lungs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »